Cockroaches and nuclear holocausts

The first short story I ever wrote (at age 9) was about a family of cockroaches after they survived a nuclear holocaust. This is not scary. What is scary is that I was writing about nuclear holocausts at age 9. Too much Discovery Channel.

(Yeah yeah, I know, this is déjà vu for my Twitter / Facebook followers. I felt like sharing it with an extended audience, m’kay?)

I’d kill anything to come up with ideas like that to write these days. Stuck in a rut.

Most people seem very enamoured with Tumblr these days because of its simple interface, although that also seduces people into writing shorter form posts. WordPress is the platform of choice for most who have been blogging for a long while (including this blog); it’s has a lot more features but can also be more confusing for beginners. Nothing that a couple of hours using it cannot sort out.

No, you don’t. WordPress has two versions – one, downloadable from WordPress.org that you can buy and install on your own hosting, own domain name. The second is a free version at WordPress.com which gives you a free *.wordpress.com blog address, free storage space for files etc. Try it out!

Another problem I have is this ‘inner critic’ of mine. Whenever I try to write something, I’m just not confident enough of what I write. This prevents me from developing my own writing style. I wanted to ask you that when you’d just started writing way back in ’04, how it all started? Did you also had this problem of constantly deleting back lines? If yes, how did you overcome it?

See this. I’d say my writing was obviously much less mature back then. I was much less mature back then. Sometimes you just have to let go and be prepared for criticism. You cannot expect to get just praise!